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BREAKING: ATF Authorizes Drive-Through Gun Sales to Maintain Social Distancing

March 6, 2025April 11, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

That sound you hear in the distance is thousands moms and their supporters in the media crying out in horror. In a bid to minimize personal contact while accommodating the crush of Americans who are still buying firearms at a record pace, our friends at the ATF have authorized gun stores to sell firearms … Read more

Don’t Risk Your Gun Rights…Go to #GUNVOTE

October 19, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

By Larry Keane We are a little over a year away from the 2020 presidential election and the mainstream media is clamoring to know where every candidate stands on the myriad of different gun control measures that have made their way into the national conversation. Earlier this week, for example, the New York Times published the responses … Read more

NSSF: The Firearms Industry Is Committed to Real Solutions

August 12, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

By the NSSF: The National Shooting Sports Foundation chose to remain respectful of the victims and their families in the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, communities in the week following the senseless and horrific murders there. We did so because we believe it is right and proper. Both communities deserve time and space to … Read more

Feds to Blow Your Taxes on [Another] Microstamping Study

July 7, 2010 by Robert Farago

Gun crime. Gun crime. How do we stop gun crime? Hmm . . . I know! How about we mandate that all guns come equipped with a firing pin that stamps the weapon’s serial number on the cartridge—every time it fires! That way, if anyone commits a crime with the gun, all the police have to do is collect the casings, read the numbers, check their records and see that the gun was stolen from someone at some point. How great is that? If a criminal dares to file down the firing pin, we’ll charge them with weapons’ tampering, just like we do now! OK, that’ll be $30 million dollars please. You can download HR 5667 commissioning a microstamping study here, or consider this quote from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF):

Female Gun Ownership on the Rise. Or not.

February 2, 2025March 30, 2010 by Robert Farago

Back when bottoms had bells, I worked for CNN. I remember standing behind Camera 3, waiting to pan right two inches (a job destined for automation), hearing the apoplectic News Editor (destined for cremation) shouting “Is it a trend? GOD DAMN YOU TO HELL! IS IT A TREND?” To which the only possible answer was “yes.” Even when it was no. The Washington Times adheres to this trending-at-all-costs editorial philosophy with More Women May be Turning to Firearms. MAY? GOD DAMN YOU TO HELL! IS IT A TREND? “A 2009 study found 70 percent of shop owners reported more female buyers. The study, conducted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation [ED: “Always shooting for more”] and Southwick Associates [ED: “Farm & Wildlife Economics and Statistics”], also found 80 percent of the female gun-buyers who responded said they purchased a gun for self-defense, followed by 35 percent for target practice and 24 percent for hunting.” Just in case you’re one of those “I’m from Missouri” people, “Women and shop owners interviewed by The Washington Times offered similar, narrow-ranging explanations for the increases — largely self-defense and concerns about the possibility President Obama would further restrict gun ownership.” When in doubt, anecdote . . .

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